Job Description

Job Summary
Provide professional nursing leadership and administrative direction for nursing practice within the Kellogg Eye Center Operating Rooms. This includes supervision of nursing, surgical technologist, and support staff. Share 24/7 phone/pager coverage that addresses department operational needs.

Participate as an active member of the leadership team focusing on daily staffing, scheduling as well as operational needs.

Additionally, the nursing supervisor will play an active role in recruitment efforts, hiring, continuous quality improvement, safety, customer service, service recovery, education and research.

Participate as a member of the leadership team to provide, and continually improve, health care services, and to support the mission and goals of the health system.

Ensure the quality of nursing services provided to patients.

The ideal candidate will be firm, yet personable, a strong leader, with the ability to set high standards and hold people accountable for meeting unit performance and patient care standards.

The candidate will have a process improvement background and demonstrated ability as a change agent.

Prior experience in nursing leadership is preferred.

Responsibilities*
Personnel Management

Select, hire, and plan for staffing, consistent with service needs and budget
Schedule and assign clinical staff, arrange coverage as needed
Supervise, mentor, counsel and evaluate staff as part of a continuous development program within the Professional Framework
Support staff education, cross training, and proficiency development
Develop and foster teamwork and building trusting relationships
Facilitate open channels of communication with the ACNO, directors, peers, staff, and physicians.
Counsel and discipline staff to enable achievement of the unit and institutional objectives, particularly as related to high quality patient care.
Clinical Practice

Facilitate and support a nursing practice environment in which empowerment, responsibility, autonomy, accountability, collaboration, and peer review are exercised
Plan, coordinate and evaluate quality assurance activities
Participate in the development of patient care models and systems.
Serve as a role model to other departmental staff in the provision of direct patient care.
Participate in multidisciplinary and unit problem-solving regarding patient care.
Identify and plan for staffing consistent with the needs of the patient population and budgetary requirements.
Clinical Operations

Coordinate unit operations including instrument processing, equipment evaluation, specialty implants, and specific surgeon requests
Plan and monitor expenditures from payroll and commodity budgets
Coordinate and control vendor site access and activity.
Participate in the development and implementation of unit goals and objectives.
Manages, directly and in collaboration with others, staffing, scheduling, benchmarking, work redesign, and cost management strategies, in the planning and management of clinical operations.
Interprets and implements university and health system policies and procedures.
Assists in the planning and implementation of new or expanded services and programs.
Represents nursing and/or clinical department/unit on assigned committees.